Ig Nobel Night at UiO

For the first time in Norway, the University of Oslo will host the alternative Nobel Prize show — the Ig Nobel Prize which the journal Nature calls "the highlight of the scientific calendar". As part of their Europe tour founder of the IG Nobel award Marc Abrahams is visiting UiO with a selected team of previous winners.

The show will begin with a short lecture from the founder of the prize Marc Abrahams who, with a twinkle in the eye, will tell about the prize, the ceremony at Harvard University and some of the latest years prize winners and their research “which makes people LAUGH, then THINK”. After this, the Ig Nobel Prize winners below will explain and perhaps demonstrate their prize-winning achievements!

Dr. Elisabeth Oberzaucher, Department of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria – for using mathematical techniques to determine whether and how Moulay Ismael the Bloodthirsty, the Sharifian Emperor of Morocco, managed, during the years from 1697 through 1727, to father 888 children. (Ig Nobel Prize in Mathematics, 2015)

The event is free and the doors open at 16:00. Forskerforbundet UiO (The Norwegian Association of Researchers - NAR) serves popcorn and jazz, and Realistforeningen keeps the bar open. (please note that it is not allowed to bring alcoholic beverages into the building).